The Centre for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies realizes a number of programs that represent the basis for various researches in the field of advanced materials and nanotechnologies. Each program has a different structure and number of associates and they all cooperate closely together. In carrying out their research goals, all groups interface with the educational mission of the Institute, potential industrial partners and the Community.

Heads of these research programs are responsible for realizing and maintaining the focus, coherency and intellectual vitality of these programs through careful selection, follow-up and explanation of suggestions and programs and through organized discussions on the most important scientific and technological issues concerning these researches.

Lately, significant realizations were achieved within a number of research projects and the most significant are presented in research highlights:

• Aerosol Synthesis of Fine Particles and Films
• Metastable materials and Mechanochemistry
• Advanced biomaterials
• Polymeric micro and nanoparticles for controlled and targeted delivery of medicaments
• Synthesis and characterization of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries
• Functionally graded materials